Robert Glenister: What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Robert Glenister said elsewhere, not written here

Premature demise.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2021 source ↗

Shirley Manson Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage

Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗

Chiwetel Ejiofor English actor

It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗

Sally Field Actor

A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2016 source ↗

That I’m still here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

Lack of confidence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

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